Forgot to turn my R/O unit off yesterday

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NorthRiverNugz

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So I got super vaped last night and I forgot to turn my R/O unit off. Luckily this thing is slow as fuck. Now there is water everywhere on the ground.... could be 1000x worse though. I soaked up as much as I could with towels and rang it out in a bucket. Maybe only 5 gallons overflowed. There is water all underneath my tent though. Between the tent and the floor. I'm thinking I'm going to have to emtpy the tent and dry it out otherwise I will have mold or mildew paradise under there.

So let that be a lesson to ya! Don't get super medicated and forget to turn your R/O's off. :D

Cheers RIU!
 
vostok

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LOL ....! but yeah clean out the tent and under or fear a visit from the Pm angel ....!
 
iPACKEDthisBOWL4TWO

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LMFAO this very thing just happened to me except it wasn't my RO unit, it was my fucking washing machine that overflowed. I had to tear everything down to get everything dry again. It has to be done cause you don't want to create a fucky situation by having mold thriving under that tent. It's a bitch but a must
 
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vostok said:
LOL ....! but yeah clean out the tent and under or fear a visit from the Pm angel ....!
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What should I do? A H202/Water wash?

iPACKEDthisBOWL4TWO said:
LMFAO this very thing just happened to me except it wasn't my RO unit, it was my fucking washing machine that overflowed. I had to tear everything down to get everything dry again. It has to be done cause you don't want to create a fucky situation by having mold thriving under that tent. It's a bitch but a must
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Haha glad to hear I'm not the only one. I'm thinking of just turning 4 pots upside down and putting one under each corner of the tent with a fan blowing underneath to dry it out. Think this will be sufficient?
 
Doer

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5 gals? Yeah....been there. It has to be made completely dry as soon as possible. Blowing air is sufficient.
 
vostok

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Maybe relocate you grow and tent to the emergency spot that you considered before starting this grow ....you do have an emergency spot ....? then find the remote for your toy helicopter that you got for Christmas, and fly that sucker in and dry that place out ....lol good luck, maybe wipe down with household bleach at 10% later
 
Doer

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iPACKEDthisBOWL4TWO said:
LMFAO this very thing just happened to me except it wasn't my RO unit, it was my fucking washing machine that overflowed. I had to tear everything down to get everything dry again. It has to be done cause you don't want to create a fucky situation by having mold thriving under that tent. It's a bitch but a must
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My brother is a contractor in FL. And they had just finished this fantastic custom home. And the Cabinet guy finished up with last finishing nail, and left.

That finished it. The nail was in the copper water line. So, after the thing is discovered in a vacant house, it is too late in FL. The Mold will have it.
It had to be torn down. Builder's sub-contractors' Insurance paperwork was timely, accurate and complete. Good thing.
 
iPACKEDthisBOWL4TWO

iPACKEDthisBOWL4TWO

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I just unzipped the bottom flap of the tent and pulled it under and out to expose the wet tent material. Waited about two hours and she was dryer than my prom date.
 
iPACKEDthisBOWL4TWO

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Doer said:
My brother is a contractor in FL. And they had just finished this fantastic custom home. And the Cabinet guy finished up with last finishing nail, and left.

That finished it. The nail was in the copper water line. So, after the thing is discovered in a vacant house, it is too late in FL. The Mold will have it.
It had to be torn down. Builder's sub-contractors' Insurance paperwork was timely, accurate and complete. Good thing.
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Thats fuckin crazy.....one finishing nail brings down an entire house LOL
 
Bugeye

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You can run your RO line to a container with a float valve inlet and not have that problem again. I have we'll water and route my RO waste water back into my cistern so nothing wasted.
 
Keif Cheif

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FloaT VALVES ARE A MUST WITH R/O. Im sorry that you had to learn this the hard way. Unfortunately, the PSI changes from place to place, so there is not always the most accurate gallon per hour/day ratios on the boxes. Highly recommend the float valves for ANY and ALL applications with water filters to reservoirs. Monster Gardens seems to have the best priced ones and the most selection. Good luck! -Cheif

http://monstergardens.com/index.php?route=product/search&filter_name=float valve
 
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Damn.... Nail in the... Copper Pipe? Haha. Yeah 5 gallons ain't that bad. It's a bit of a bitch and my babies will have to have a simulated overcast day but it could have been much worse. So I got each tent corner/joint propped up on a 2 gallon pot upside down. Got my fatass underneath the tent somehow and wiped it dry by hand. Both can fans blowin under there with another regular house fan. I'ma make a water/peroxide solution and wipe it down under there.

vostok said:
Maybe relocate you grow and tent to the emergency spot that you considered before starting this grow ....you do have an emergency spot ....? then find the remote for your toy helicopter that you got for Christmas, and fly that sucker in and dry that place out ....lol good luck, maybe wipe down with household bleach at 10% later
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Don't have any bleach currently. Think this will be sufficient? Unfortunately I don't have an emergency spot. I figured in worst case emergency I will just have to tear down and start over.

Bugeye said:
You can run your RO line to a container with a float valve inlet and not have that problem again. I have we'll water and route my RO waste water back into my cistern so nothing wasted.
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I know people use these in their aquarium sumps but I was unaware it could be used in conjunction with a R/O unit. Will have to hit the the aquahobby store one of these days to prevent in the future.
 
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Keif Cheif said:
FloaT VALVES ARE A MUST WITH R/O. Im sorry that you had to learn this the hard way. Unfortunately, the PSI changes from place to place, so there is not always the most accurate gallon per hour/day ratios on the boxes. Highly recommend the float valves for ANY and ALL applications with water filters to reservoirs. Monster Gardens seems to have the best priced ones and the most selection. Good luck! -Cheif

http://monstergardens.com/index.php?route=product/search&filter_name=float valve
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Funny because I did the math in my head and there should have been a lot more water on the ground. The unit is 200 GPD, the reservoir is 32 Gallons which had maybe 5 in it? And it was left running for about 9 hours while I got my beauty sleep. I'm not complaining hahaha.
 
Doer

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Bugeye said:
You can run your RO line to a container with a float valve inlet and not have that problem again. I have we'll water and route my RO waste water back into my cistern so nothing wasted.
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OH YEAH. Get a barrel or something you can put the float valve and have that over a drain. I use a spare bathtub. I built a little sturdy stand, out of 2 x 4s, used the shower connection to plumb to the RO and the RO bypass back into the tub.

Next thing, will be to add a second float valve set up to feed water from the barrel to the fog tub. I use that to humidify the veg tent. And it fogs a couple of gals a day, to keep the tent at 75% RH. I want to use a siphon action with the float valve opening the siphon when the tub draws down.

Just need to make sure it fails safe. 30 gal spill? All the barrel? No. Open loop. :) The fog tub over flows AND the RO unit keeps making water to fill the barrel. Woops.

I need to rig an overflow drain back into the tub.

Here is a tip for the Newbie section. If you are not thinking fail safe, you really are not thinking it through.
 
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